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Muli-Bwanjie t1_j2dygoa wrote

Nice shot.

I'll never forget seeing a purple sunrise over Mt Taranaki from a tuna fishing boat in the tasman sea. One of the most beautiful moments I've witnessed.

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mlc808 t1_j2f91cx wrote

Beautiful shot ! We so wanted to make it down there.... but that was before we realized HOW FUCKING HUGE New Zealand actually is. Looking at it on a map we were like.... "Yeah we'll do Hobbiton and then drive down to Egmont" ......like it was a short Sunday drive. After driving around the South Island for a few weeks we actually investigated the drive time of our proposed schedule and realized the foibles of our plans. We do hope to get there someday still.

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Sounstream OP t1_j2f8njx wrote

I went back for some stargazing, and sunrise. It was beautiful and completely different each time!

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DryTown t1_j2e46re wrote

This is an interesting photo because there’s no sense of scale. Is this a 10,000 foot mountain on a crystal clear day or a 500 foot cinder cone? Could be either in my mind.

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Ubongo t1_j2eauw5 wrote

It's a 2500m (8200ft) mountain, but this picture is only showing the top half because of where it is taken from.

It's a beautiful place - I used to hike there a lot when I was in high school. This tarn was a spot I always loved getting to first thing in the morning because it would be frozen over.

https://flic.kr/p/2PWsC

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DingDong_Dongguan t1_j2eirud wrote

Looks like a pimple on the island

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Kaymish_ t1_j2f23g7 wrote

That's because when the park was created it was defined as a radius from the peak, so all the farmers cleared up to that radius to make a circle that can be seen from space.

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Night_Banan t1_j2erscn wrote

Never would've guessed 2500m. It looked like hill I could sprint up on a minute

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Mujokan t1_j2epb0p wrote

Well you know NZ can be proud about mountains and volcanoes and naturally they are part of Maori mythology and so this isn't called Mt Egmont any more.

I seem to remember this volcano got used as a stand-in for Mt Fuji in that Tom Cruise movie. Fuji obviously being really important in Japanese religion.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that mountains are awesome.

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Kaymish_ t1_j2f2hkc wrote

When you write your pepeha one of the first few lines is which mountain you belong to. That's how important they are.

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Mujokan t1_j2f66z2 wrote

I am not sure what mountain I belong to and that is fucking me up right now.

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Kaymish_ t1_j2f8k2s wrote

Thats not uncommon. Many of us got cut off from our culture over the years and we are currently living in a time of reconnection and rediscovery. When I needed to write my pepeha I didn't know my mountain either so I thought a bit and chose one that I felt close to. It ended up being the same mountain as mum picked.

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Mujokan t1_j2faw9p wrote

I am going to say Ruapehu. But i love the bays around Banks peninsula (Horomaka?)

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Owlmoose t1_j2ewd64 wrote

The last samurai. Bang on.

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Mujokan t1_j2eyib9 wrote

Yeah I think that type of volcano isn't that common.

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Billybobhotdogs t1_j2ei4j1 wrote

Many of the most dangerous volcanic mountains are stratovolcanoes (also known as composite volcanoes).

This includes Mt Taranaki as pictured above, but also Mt Rainier, Hood, St Helens in the US; Mt Fuji of Japan; Vesuvius, Etna, and Stromboli of Italy; And of course, many more!

My graduate degree focus is on stratovolcanic structure and I absolutely adore them

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ChouTofu t1_j2e6jo9 wrote

Nice try, Smaug... I know the lonely mountain when I see it

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Wirenfeldt t1_j2eb1pj wrote

New Zealand feels like a cheat code for this sub.. Hope to get back there again..

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legby t1_j2es9cd wrote

I was there yesterday and took a much worse photo. https://i.imgur.com/ftHQUbd.jpg

This place really is beautiful.

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Sounstream OP t1_j2f889t wrote

I got super lucky with the weather/wind! It was first time up there, hoping to do Syme hut this year!

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D0xxing t1_j2ebcee wrote

That’s the Kingdom of Erebor

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Jayrandomer t1_j2ep63k wrote

Taranaki always makes me think of Flight of the Conchords. Beautiful picture.

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Phreedom1 t1_j2egzwg wrote

Looks very much like my home mountain, Mt. Hood

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Billybobhotdogs t1_j2ehej6 wrote

Both are stratovolcanoes, and because of that, share very similar features!

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Felaguin t1_j2fcqxh wrote

That could be the Lonely Mountain at the edge of Long Lake …

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conduitfour t1_j2er3aj wrote

I first learned the word tarn from The Fall of the House of Usher.

From the U.S. Natonal Park Service:

"Cirques are bowl-shaped, amphitheater-like depressions that glaciers carve into mountains and valley sidewalls at high elevations. Often, the glaciers flow up and over the lip of the cirque as gravity drives them downslope. Lakes (called tarns) often occupy these depressions once the glaciers retreat."

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slow_learner75 t1_j2ezrog wrote

Mt Taranaki played Mt Fuji in Tom Cruise's Last Samurai.

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Robotdeath t1_j2flp65 wrote

Look at that mountain. It looks like Mount Fuji, but it's not. It's Mount Taranaki.

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AstroJack90 t1_j2emdx1 wrote

This IS how i imaginé the pyramids looked like a Long time ago

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MajorasMask89 t1_j2ex69g wrote

Excellent shot. I climbed it a few years ago. Absolutely stunning place.

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spiff3r t1_j2f6euz wrote

Beautiful, really peaks my interest

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Poneke365 t1_j2fpq9k wrote

That is an incredible photo

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